heave

At one point, Nelson appears to snatch the other driver’s sunglasses from his forehead and heave them across the parking lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

But with a final heave of the digger bucket, a shower of gold was released from the soil.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Seattle trailed 12-7 when quarterback Russell Wilson unleashed a desperate heave to the end zone in the final seconds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

In the part of the forest they control, he and other Romee youngsters heave logs to be burned and turned into charcoal, then sent by canoe to the provincial capital Kisangani.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

The fence groaned as he prepared to heave himself up.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Malak heaves and leaks tears, stuffs a tattered tissue into the corners of her eyes.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

Cronin is loved for building teams that improve with the schedule, fight till the finish, and have been a couple of last-second Gonzaga heaves from seriously competing for a national title.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025

With each of their heaves, the rope squeaked and the branch above bounced precariously.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

Until then, the Huskies can live off the happy memories of Penix’s precision heaves sailing into receivers’ arms, over and over again.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

The dug-out heaves, the night roars and flashes.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

However, the game swung again in the over after Kelly reached his hundred as the left-hander heaved Tom Helm to Higgins on the mid-wicket fence to leave Leicestershire eight down.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

On the small vessel’s deck, a pair of traps containing skittering crustaceans had just been heaved aboard from 25 feet below the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Von Allmen, however, was a picture of celebration after his storming run, the large number of baying Swiss fans in the packed tribune wildly applauding their hero, flags waved, cowbells heaved and air horns blown.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Every Navy officer I knew heaved a huge sigh of relief.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025

My chest heaved suddenly, and my throat felt thick.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Racism has been a feature of American history since the first slave ship hove to off Jamestown in 1619.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

“Make yourself at home,” the midwife said, as I hove into the birthing room like a galleon in full sail.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2019

“The jury is still out,” said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of the Belgium-based chip research center Imec.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2016

Just as Farage was explaining the purpose of his demonstration to the assembled media, another vessel hove alongside—to wit, a white pleasure cruiser by the name of Sarpedon.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2016

We could hear the car several blocks before it actually hove into sight, because it was equipped with an exhaust whistle that was allowed to function as a matter of routine.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The place was heaving with devotees, hands clasped at their chests and lips moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

The gym, meanwhile, is "absolutely heaving with young people" at times, says Lauren Connis, head of health and wellbeing at Oldham Active in Manchester.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026

Or what it feels like to ride the slow heaving of the ocean, pulsing like the heartbeat of the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

An antidote to shoutier, perhaps less truly confident cities, there is an old joke that the local tourist board motto is: "Don't tell anyone or the place will be heaving."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

He’s not just leaning and heaving to catch his breath this time.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman